Seriously, look at all these geese
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The quantity of goose droppings is now pestilential. A single bird can eat more grass each day than a sheep, and excrete the waste from its digestion every five minutes. That is around 100 sizeable cylindrical dumps were day amounting to 1 kg (or 2lb) of goose poo, and during peak times for park visitors, as many of 400 of these birds may daily produce an estimated 40,000 poops or one third of a ton of excreta. Anywhere the geese roam, it is impossible not to tread in something, while some grassy areas are impossible places to picnic. Fortunately only a rare few individuals and car windscreens received a hit by dejects from a flying goose, when the splay - as experts term it - is copious, sticky, mostly green, and smelling (victims report) like spinach soup. The long-standing debate about how to solve the problem of the goose droppings ended in action when the council bought an £8,600 ‘Goosebuster’ machine. Unfortunately this mechanised poo-remover is ineffective on grass.
